Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...
Today, in a post titled "Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers," Notepad++ confirmed the app had fallen victim to ...
State-backed attackers hijacked Notepad++ update traffic via a hosting provider breach, redirecting users to malicious ...
State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious ...
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.